Mooby the Golden Sock
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- Posted: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:29:43 +0000
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Mooby the Golden Sock
While this may be old news, it's certainly not finalized.
About a month ago Comcast started trying to gain support for the merger by stating that, "Comcast’s transaction with Time Warner Cable will bring Net Neutrality protection to millions of new customers in cities from New York to Los Angeles."
"Net Neutrality protection," of course, refers to Comcast agreeing to be legally bound to the 2010 net neutrality rules until 2018 as a condition of its merger with NBC in 2011*. The same rules that Comcast lobbied against and had struck down before they had to recant to make their merger work.
After the merger, the TWC who are reclassified as Comcast customers will be covered under Comcast's net neutrality clause, so what they're saying is technically true. However, it is much less, "we support net neutrality" and more, "TWC customers will be covered by a temporary clause designed to protect Comcast customers from Comcast."
Slimy.
About a month ago Comcast started trying to gain support for the merger by stating that, "Comcast’s transaction with Time Warner Cable will bring Net Neutrality protection to millions of new customers in cities from New York to Los Angeles."
"Net Neutrality protection," of course, refers to Comcast agreeing to be legally bound to the 2010 net neutrality rules until 2018 as a condition of its merger with NBC in 2011*. The same rules that Comcast lobbied against and had struck down before they had to recant to make their merger work.
After the merger, the TWC who are reclassified as Comcast customers will be covered under Comcast's net neutrality clause, so what they're saying is technically true. However, it is much less, "we support net neutrality" and more, "TWC customers will be covered by a temporary clause designed to protect Comcast customers from Comcast."
Slimy.
*: What the ********? Why wasn't NBC required to tell us about it? They're the news for ******** sake?
LOL! They're owned by two companies who have nothing to do with news!